(urth) AEG clones

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 19:53:47 PST 2008


>Stupid me. Wolfe hid the answer in plain sight.
>Reis did lie to Cassie, but his lie was in the attempt to cover up the 
>truth
>about what she was wearing the first time he saw her. I knew there had to 
>be
>a text-based solution...Sometime that night, presumably after Gid cast the
>glamour on her, Reis saw her and wanted her. That's why he went to India at
>noon before the play to become her "angel" in a big, new musical.

It's true that Cassie wears green prior to the party, but this solution is 
no more "text-based" than your prior theory. It is significantly less so, 
really, since it relies on reams of supposition about what might have or 
have not happened between the time Cassie reached the mountain and when she 
got home. Rather than solving anything, it inelegantly raises an 
intimidating army of intractable mysteries.

On the other hand, your prior theory succeeds in resolving the issue of why 
Reis was lying up a storm about seeing her at the play. Why *after the fact* 
would Reis need to lie about seeing her at the play? Because no one else saw 
him there? So what? So they didn't see him. He just says, "You must have 
missed seeing me."

J.




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